Towards A Sustainable European Agricultural Policy For The 21st Century

Author : Johan F. M. Swinnen
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : 9290793902

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Towards a Sustainable European Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century by Johan F. M. Swinnen Pdf

The debate on agricultural policy in the EU has been very lively and politically prominent over the past months. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU has undergone major changes since it was first implemented at the end of the 1960s. Commentators suggest that the CAP changes made in the Agenda 2000 reform package were insufficient to address the problems facing the CAP in the coming years. These include enlargement, new trade negotiations and the demand by European society for a safe, sustainable agri-food system, to name but a few. This report highlights the most pressing challenges to creating a sustainable CAP for the 21st century. It focuses on strategic policy options that are closely linked to the CAP system to be "hands on"; but the report refrains from becoming too specific on policy details, focusing instead on the important strategic questions. It offers six recommendations for good governance, that aim to remove bureaucratic constraints from the food industry, yet strengthen consistency and good practice.

Author : Guy Paillotin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662036921

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European Agricultural Research in the 21st Century by Guy Paillotin Pdf

Jointly published with INRA, Paris. What will people eat in the future and how can the food requirements in terms of quantity and quality be met? This EU-based study elucidates the need for a productivity level that will make agriculture competitive on the market and yet is reconciled with the need to manage natural resources and lands wisely. In this book the necessary changes for European agriculture from the biological, medical, economic and political perspective are discussed.

Author : Grace Skogstad,Amy Verdun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317988533

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The Common Agricultural Policy by Grace Skogstad,Amy Verdun Pdf

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a unique agricultural policy worldwide. For many years, its status as the only common European Community (EC) policy governed by EC institutions put it at the heart of European integration. Today the CAP is not the only common European Union (EU) policy. Even while it remains the sole instance of a regionally integrated agricultural policy, the CAP no longer embodies the same degree of cross-national harmonization of agricultural policy among EC/EU member states that it once did. The CAP has undergone policy reforms in the past two decades and these reforms have spawned a host of questions. What has caused the CAP to reform? How path-breaking are CAP reforms? Are they consistent with founding CAP goals or do they encompass new ideas about agriculture’s place in the economy and society? And what are the consequences of agricultural policy reforms: for European farmers, consumers and taxpayers; for European ‘public goods’ such as environmental sustainability and preservation of rural communities and landscapes; and for third parties outside the EU, including the WTO? This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.

Author : Maria Cristina Paciello
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9788868125080

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Building Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area by Maria Cristina Paciello Pdf

Sustainable agrocolture and food security are of particular concern for the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and represent one of the biggest challenges facing the area. As a consequence of the region’s heavy reliance on food imports, the sharp increase in food prices since 2007 and the consequent world food crisis has had macro-economic problems (inflation, trade deficits, fiscal pressure), increased poverty and political instability. This challenge, coupled with the consequences of environmental degradation, water scarcity, urbanization and climate stress, call for the urgent development of sustainable agriculture has mostly been ignored in Euro-Mediterranean relations, due to strong opposition from the EU. However, academics and policymakers have increasingly acknowlendged that agriculture that needs to be placed at the core of Euro-Mediterranean regional cooperation. Given the sensitiveness and strategic importance of agriculture for both shores of the Mediterranean, the IAI and the OCP Policy Center jointly organized a two-day conference in Rabat on November 20-21, 2014, to discuss food security and agriculture challeges in the framework of Euro-Mediterranean relations. The present colume collects the updated and revised versions of the twelve papers that were discussed in that meeting.

Author : Luchino Ferraris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789086868971

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The pursuit of sustainable agriculture in EU free trade agreements by Luchino Ferraris Pdf

This book explores the extent to which EU Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) pursue sustainable agriculture in third country parties. It contends that this should be part of a duty for the EU enshrined in the Treaties to promote its fundamental values in its external action. It suggests that the extent to which this occurs in practice, may be reviewed judicially by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Against this background, selected agreements concluded by the EU with developed and developing countries (Canada, South Korea, Ukraine, Chile, SADC countries and Vietnam) are taken as case studies. The author concludes that, in spite of the remarkable progress made hitherto, EU trade policy is still far from being in line with the increasingly strong commitment of the EU to take the lead in the international arena for environmental and climate matters. This work adopts primarily a legal methodology, but it broaches the subject in interdisciplinary terms. It is addressed not only to (EU) policy-makers, but also to scholars of different fields and to the wider public interested in topics that have become of common concern for the future of our planet. With a foreword by Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director General of the European Commission - DG Environment

Author : Commission of the European Communities. Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951D01163095O

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EC Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century by Commission of the European Communities. Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs Pdf

Author : Marko Lovec
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137572783

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The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy Reforms by Marko Lovec Pdf

This book engages in the controversies of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms, demonstrating how these are reiterated by mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. The reforms that the European Union’s CAP underwent during the last three decades were intended to make it less trade-distorting, more taxpayer-friendly and more able to meet the new challenges of environmental concerns and rural development/territorial cohesion. The outcome of the reforms has, however, contradicted these objectives, with the controversies being reiterated by the mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy Reforms argues that these controversies are due to reductionist, rationalist and idealist assumptions with regard to the object of inquiry applied by mainstream approaches. It proposes an alternative critical approach that takes into account the role of real material factors. Critical realism is not just an alternative explanation of CAP reforms but an alternative theory of how explanations can be made, which enables readers to reflect upon and endorse the results of existing lines of research in proceeding towards deeper level theory.

Author : European Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development,European Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN : UOM:39015041887020

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Agriculture and Sustainability by European Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development,European Commission Pdf

Author : Lee-Ann Sutherland,Ika Darnhofer,Geoff Wilson,Lukas Zagata
Publisher : CABI
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781780642192

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Transition Pathways towards Sustainability in Agriculture by Lee-Ann Sutherland,Ika Darnhofer,Geoff Wilson,Lukas Zagata Pdf

Based on the research of an interdisciplinary team of sociologists, geographers and economists, this book focuses on understanding farming transitions in Europe. The book discusses the importance of understanding transition pathways towards sustainability using case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Assessing the utility of the multi-level perspective in transition theory for addressing contemporary issues, the book identifies future research needs and possible approaches, making this an essential read for researchers interested in issues of rural and agricultural change.

Author : European Commission. Directorate-General for Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112853507

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Towards Sustainable Farming by European Commission. Directorate-General for Agriculture Pdf

Author : European Communities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1111139959

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Towards Sustainable Farming by European Communities Pdf

Author : Carsten Daugbjerg,Peter H. Feindt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351118286

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Transforming Food and Agricultural Policy by Carsten Daugbjerg,Peter H. Feindt Pdf

Western democratic welfare states often featured sectoral governance arrangements where governments negotiated policy with sectoral elites, based on shared ideas and exclusive institutional arrangements. Food and agriculture policy is widely considered an extreme case of compartmentalized and ‘exceptionalist’ policy-making, where sector-specific policy ideas and institutions provide privileged access for sectoral interest groups and generate policies that benefit their members. In the last two decades, policy exceptionalism has been under pressure from internationalization of policy-making, increasing interlinkage of policy areas and trends towards self-regulation, liberalization and performance-based policies. This book introduces the concept of ‘post-exceptionalism’ to characterize an incomplete transformation of exceptionalist policies and politics which preserves significant exceptionalist features. Post-exceptional constellations of ideas, institutions, interests and policies can be complementary and stable, or tense and unstable. Food and agriculture policy serves as an example to illustrate an incomplete transformation towards a more open, contested and networked politics. Chapters on agricultural policy-making in the European Union and the United States, the politics of food in Germany and the United Kingdom, transnational organic standard setting and global food security debates demonstrate how ‘postexceptionalism’ helps to understand the co-existence of transformation and path dependency in contemporary public policies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Author : Bazyli Czyżewski,Łukasz Kryszak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031097966

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Sustainable Agriculture Policies for Human Well-Being by Bazyli Czyżewski,Łukasz Kryszak Pdf

This book deals with the important topic of policies for sustainable agriculture, since food insecurity is a growing concern for policy makers and will affect the quality of life and well-being of generations to come. The authors provide a theoretical background to the concept of sustainable agriculture including its recent developments; monitor the current state of sustainability in agriculture in different regions of the world; and evaluate current agricultural policies to propose new solutions. They show practical ways of sustainability measurement that could be applied to different regions. The book takes into account sustainability indicators based on economic, social and environmental aspects and discusses the trade-offs between these three dimensions. It also answers the question of whether current agricultural policies contribute to balancing between the goals of agriculture---that of not just providing food but of contributing to the greater good---and how policies differ and have evolved across the world. Finally, it puts together the best practices of sustainability for the use of policymakers. The book pays particular attention to least developed countries where hunger and malnutrition are high, but where productivity should not come at the expense of environmental and social goals. This book is of use to a wide readership of policy makers, professionals and academics in the social and environmental sciences interested in the improvement of human life through sustainable agricultural policy implementation.

Author : Alan Greer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 071906029X

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Agricultural Policy in Europe by Alan Greer Pdf

This book provides a stimulating account of agricultural policy which goes beyond a narrow concern with the mechanisms and operation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and instead constructs a broader canvas, developing an assessment of the relationship between national, international and supranational institutions and actors in the agricultural sector. Among the theses covered by the book are: the different national policy styles across Europe in this sector; the evolution of the CAP; safety and regulation, the environment, and technological developments in food production such as genetic engineering.

Author : Robert Ackrill
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1841271268

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Common Agricultural Policy by Robert Ackrill Pdf

The CAP has traditionally been at the core of the European Communities and even now consumes half of the European Union's budget. This book emphasizes the long-term link between the CAP and the budget. It examines the aims of the Common Agricultural Policy as set out in the Treaty of Rome and discusses to what extent they have been achieved and whether they are relevant to the 21st century. The factors that have shaped the 1992 and 1999 CAP reforms are outlined, with the latter, in particular, demonstrating the budget's effect on CAP and CAP reforms. The internationalization of CAP with constraints being placed on it by the World Trade Organization is another important factor covered by the book. The 1999 reforms are measured against what may be allowed by the WTO and the demands of EU enlargement. This title is published in conjunction with UACES, the University Association for Contemporary European Studies. UACES web site can be found at www.uaces.org